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CVE-2009-1537 Unmapped
Microsoft DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — DirectX
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft DirectX contains a NULL byte overwrite vulnerability in the QuickTime Movie Parser Filter in quartz.dll in DirectShow which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted QuickTime media file.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-05-20 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
- Due date
- 2026-06-03
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- none recorded by CISA
- CISA notes
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-028
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1537 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2009-1537. This entry was added to KEV on 2026-05-20, after that snapshot; of the 283 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE — here is why — and does not guess.
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